interracial
adjective
in·ter·ra·cial
ˌin-tər-ˈrā-shəl 
: of, involving, or designed for members of different races (see race entry 1 sense 1a)
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As a result, Hayes shared a photo of her ex-husband, a white man, and called her Blackness into question because of the interracial pairing.
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Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
In Palo Alto, just south of San Francisco, lies a parcel of land that served as an experiment for interracial living in the 1950s.
—Shawna Chen, Axios, 20 Feb. 2025
That afforded her the money to form an interracial track team that was thought to be the first of its kind in the Midwest.
—Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on interracial dating as a sociopolitical strategy.
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Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
In Palo Alto, just south of San Francisco, lies a parcel of land that served as an experiment for interracial living in the 1950s.
—Shawna Chen, Axios, 20 Feb. 2025
That afforded her the money to form an interracial track team that was thought to be the first of its kind in the Midwest.
—Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on interracial dating as a sociopolitical strategy.
—Katie Roiphe Robert Draper David Marchese Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah Yotam Ottolenghi Kate Folk Jim Shepard John Hodgman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
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interracial
adjective
in·ter·ra·cial
ˌint-ər-ˈrā-shəl
: of, involving, or designed for members of different races
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